We talked about this being an option when we were designing the H9, but if it behaved like this, how would one toggle between bypass and active? You could try to bypass how you activate the tuner, but some people have had no end of trouble doing a two button press (I guess it depends a lot on what shoes you're wearing…)
I actually argued for making the footswitches configurable, but the truth is the more I've gotten used to using the H9 the more I've realized the problems with what people suggest as alternate configurations.
Another one that comes up is people want long pressing into tap tempo mode to allow them to control the performance switch instead of the tempo, but the problem with this is that the performance switch itself sometimes is press and hold, which would boot you out of tap tempo mode.
Other people have suggested assigning the performance switch to the big, black wheel, but again a lot of people have trouble hitting this wheel with their foot (let alone pressing and holding it).
Is there any reason why you can't use an aux switch? They're cheap, and they don't have any of the aforementioned drawbacks.
The issue with an aux foot switch is that I currently run 2 H9’s in different locations of my board…+ a timeline which I had already planned to have an aux switch for as i use 4 different delay settings on that… and in the heat of the moment, I have trouble intuitively changing banks on it as well.
That would be 3 separate aux switches…. which has extra space and wiring requirements that almost warrant a separate board unto themselves….:)
Personally, I could handle setting the left switch for down, right switch for up, and black wheel for bypass.
Sean Meredith-Jones
http://www.seanmeredithjones.com
Sean Meredith-Jones
http://www.seanmeredithjones.com
